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<< Our Photo Pages >> Peterkirk - Broch or Nuraghe in Scotland in Orkney

Submitted by howar on Thursday, 25 March 2004  Page Views: 4814

Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Peterkirk
Country: Scotland County: Orkney Type: Broch or Nuraghe
Nearest Town: Twatt  Nearest Village: Costa
Map Ref: HY337287  Landranger Map Number: 6
Latitude: 59.139905N  Longitude: 3.160452W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
3 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
3

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Peterkirk Broch
Peterkirk Broch submitted by howar : Peterkirk Broch , St.Peter's Kirk , burial ground Orkney HY337287 (Vote or comment on this photo)
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Peterkirk
Peterkirk submitted by howar : diagram based on Google satellite image showing kirk as probably offcentre as far as mound goes, don't know if anything can be inferred from the different green indicated by line going through corner of kirk (Vote or comment on this photo)

Peterkirk
Peterkirk submitted by howar : prehistoric settlement mound surmounted by mediaeval buildings - 13th century kirk at top of mound and a.n.other (Vote or comment on this photo)

Peterkirk
Peterkirk submitted by howar : sites on first 25":mile map (Vote or comment on this photo)

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HY3328 : Fields in Costa by Andy Farrington
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HY3328 : Towards the coast at Costa by Gordon Hatton
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Re: Peterkirk by howar on Monday, 04 February 2013
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Outer Urrigar, Peter's Kirk and burial-ground etc HY32NW 12 at HY33742870 ; Peter's Kirk aka Outer Urrigar cairn HY32NW 16 HY33712870.
The 1st 25" map show's Peter's Kirk as on uncultivated land between the low cliff and an obtuse angle wall, west of which 'enclosure' are the legend Burial Ground and a due N/S aligned oval Cairn (apparently banked) slightly bigger than the kirk - another smaller building is shown at the edge of the southern wall segment near the corner. The stone cairn is presently described as turf-covered, about 9mD by 0.7m in height and marking the edge of a settlement mound at whose highest point the kirk is. Though in 1967 Ordnance Survey were unable to classify it, as the result of what they considered severe mutilation, in 1981 the SMR talks of what might be the concave inner face of a structural wall on the north side, formed by a row of edge-set slabs. Also on the settlement's edge, east to south-east of the kirk, are several irregularly placed erect stones. These are tentatively described as grave-markers but could be from an underlying structure [as with the broch features diggers have found at Warebeth Cemetery on occasion]. To the north-east of the site the cliff cuts through the settlement to reveal traces of prehistoric structures up to three metres in depth, described as unsurveyable by O.S. in 1967. Alongside is kitchen-midden.
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